58 Great obscurity hangs over the chronology here indicated. According to Usher, the Smyrnaians began the month Xanthicus on the 25th of March. But the seventh day before the Kalends of May is the 25th of April. Some, therefore, read Aprilliwn instead of Maiwn. The great Sabbath is that before the passover. The "eighth hour" may correspond either to our 8 A.M. or 2 P.M.

59 Called before (chap. xii.) Asiarch.

60 Literally, "according as."

61 What follows is, of course, no part of the original Epistle.

1 Does not this seem a pointed allusion to Rev. ii. 10?

2 Sthqi wj akmwn tuptomenoj.

3 See To the Tralliaus, cap. 13. Much might have been made, had it been found here, out of the reference to Christ the High Priest (Philadelphians, cap. 9).

4 The other Epistles, bearing the name of Ignatius, will be found in the Appendix; so that the English reader possesses in this volume a complete collection of the Ignatian letters.

1 Literally, "before the ages."

2 These words may agree with "glory," but are better applied to the "Church."